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• Mark Rogers, 38, Joseph Way, 36, and Tashara Levans, 37, each pleaded guilty on Dec. 14 to one count of kidnapping a federal employee, which could get them nine years to life in federal prison, The Washington Post reported.
It all started on Nov. 16, 2019, in Rochester, New York, when the three were anxiously awaiting a postal delivery of $70,000 worth of cocaine.
The mail carrier delivered several other packages to the home that day, but as she stepped off the porch, the trio accused her of stealing the drug package.
They ransacked her mail truck, "then told her she was coming with them," prosecutor Robert Marangola said during a hearing. In Levans' SUV, they told the postal employee that they were going to kill her, her children and her mother.
They searched her personal vehicle, then continued driving her around while threatening her.
But eventually they stopped and got out to talk. That's when the mail carrier used her smartwatch to text her supervisor and the Rochester Police Department. As the suspects finally dropped her off at her car, police swarmed the SUV and arrested them. Sentencing is scheduled for April. [Washington Post, 12/16/2021]